Adria Airways is the national airline of Slovenia. It was founded in 1961 as Inex-Adria Airways. The airline's main hub is at Ljubljana Airport, with secondary hubs in Pristina, Tirana and Łódź. Adria Airways is a Star Alliance member since 2004, and it uses Lufthansa's frequent-flyer program, Miles & More.

Currently, Adria Airways operates a fleet of 12 airplanes. Two of which are A319's, one A320, one Bombardier CRJ200, one CRJ700 and six CRJ900's. The Bombardier CRJ200 is due to be phased out in 2015. Adria has got one orders: one CRJ900.

In 2013, Adria Airways has transported 1,026,839 passengers in 19,509 flights. The average load factor was 73,16%, up 4,17% compared to 2012. There were only 375 employees left in 2013 from the 719 in 2008. For the past six years, Adria Airways had a net loss.

Adria Airways surely isn't the only national European airline looking further than its borders:

airBaltic in summer 2016 season is adding service between Switzerland and Germany, offering nonstop flight on Zurich – Heringsdorf route. This flight will operate on Saturdays, starting 14MAY16, with Dash8-Q400 aircraft.

It seems to be some kind of a trend, moreover with Montenegro Airlines planning on starting services in B&H

ADRIA Airways in summer 2016 season further expands Polish link from Munich, with the flights to the Northeastern Polish city of Szczytno. From 17JUN16, the airline operates Munich – Szczytno route 3 times a week, with CRJ200/700/900, pending on operational period.

JP134 MUC0815 – 0950SZY CR9 135JP135 SZY1015 – 1155MUC CR9 135

ADRIA will be the second carrier offering scheduled service at Szczytno. Sprint Air currently offers flights to Krakow and Berlin Tegel 3 weekly each with Saab 340.

Recently, a frequent business flyer, online known as 'knightofmalta', has travelled from Tirana to Munich, with Adria Airways. Under here, one can read his conclusions. For a more detailed report, this is his blog post.

ConclusionAll in all I though, Adria Airways were not that bad at all. True, buy on board is never cool, but the quality of the food available was good and came at a decent price. The aircraft was comfortable enough, although much of that had to do with the fact that is was mostly empty. On a longer or full flight I am not sure how comfortable the experience would be.